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[Closed] 1200 calories a day - really?

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This will probably go unheard but the 1200kcal is a datum! You can still have 4000kcal a day as long as you burn 2800kcal through cardio. That's the way it works; you off set the extra calories by thrashing yourself up a mountain.


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 5:14 pm
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You can still have 4000kcal a day as long as you burn 2800kcal through cardio. That's the way it works; you off set the extra calories by thrashing yourself up a mountain

Exactly - rather than making me eat less I'm finding that I'm actually starting to exercise more


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 5:17 pm
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Or stacking 3 tons of beer barrels / malt every day?


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 5:24 pm
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This will probably go unheard but the 1200kcal is a datum!

Well obviously, but I'd be under the impression that the OP is exercising all she wants to at the moment, hence 1200 cals is what it returns.


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 5:41 pm
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read grahamS posts littlemisspanda, you get to add back in any exersize you do.

so: 1200 cal per day, go for run (uses up 500cal) so total allowance for the day is 1700 calories.

OK?


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 6:07 pm
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I'm sure you can. But I don't want to "get by". Food isn't just fuel to humans, it's linked to lots of pleasurable and social activities too. That's why I dislike the "diet" idea - as something to be endured or suffered. My thought is that it's better to settle on a sustainable regime which contains commonly available (and oh-so-very-tasty) "bad" things rather than some Atkins-like torture which you will abandon the very moment you hit target weight.

Frankly I'd rather be a little bit overweight and have a nice time than ripped and f***ing miserable because I can't have a glass of sherry and some Kettle Chips.

+ Lots and lots!!!


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 6:12 pm
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I'd be miserable if had to drink sherry and eat kettle chips. eeewww.


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 6:36 pm
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You can still have 4000kcal a day as long as you burn 2800kcal through cardio. That's the way it works; you off set the extra calories by thrashing yourself up a mountain.

if you read the thread more carefully, this is pretty much already established.

For weight loss, the +/- offset obviously needs to be greater


 
Posted : 21/06/2012 6:43 pm
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